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comatrix

comatrix noun: adjoint; The transposed matrix of the cofactors of the entries of a matrix.

Noun

comatrix (plural comatrices)

  1. Adjoint; The transposed matrix of the cofactors of the entries of a matrix.
    • Better yet, we may take the coalgebra of the preceding corollary to be a comatrix coalgebra.2011, David E. Radford, Hopf Algebras, page 182

Forms of comatrix

pluralcomatrices

Origin of comatrix

From co- + matrix.

Questions about comatrix

What does comatrix mean?
Comatrix means adjoint; The transposed matrix of the cofactors of the entries of a matrix.
What part of speech is comatrix?
Comatrix is a noun.
What is the plural of comatrix?
The plural of comatrix is comatrices.

Words near comatrix in the dictionary

  1. comatoses
  2. comatosing
  3. comatosity
  4. comatous
  5. comatrices
  6. comatrix
  7. comatula
  8. comatulae
  9. comatulas
  10. comatulid
  11. comatulids

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